Monthly Archives: February 2022

2022-02-26: News Headlines

Editor (2022-02-26). Hedges: Assange Affirms the Existence of Another Kind of Human Nature. scheerpost.com Original illustration by Mr. Fish | By Chris Hedges / A Statement made at the We know what Julian did. We know the great public service he provided. We know that he and WikiLeaks, aided by courageous figures such as Chelsea Manning, gave us the most important journalist coup of our generation, ripping back the veil erected by the ruling political, military, and financial elites to expose their mendacity, their corruption, and their crimes. We know that populations around the world, from Haiti to Tunisia, w…

WSWS (2022-02-26). Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. wsws.org The nomination does not change the balance on the high court, which will remain divided 6—3 between right-wing reactionaries and moderate liberals.

teleSUR (2022-02-26). Biden Nominates African-American Judge for US Supreme Court. telesurenglish.net With the election of the current federal appellate judge in Washington, D.C., Biden fulfills his 2020 campaign promise to make history by nominating the first African American to that position. | President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. She is eminently qualified to serve our nation on our highest court. Feb. 26, 2022.

teleSUR (2022-02-26). El Salvador: LGBTIQ+ Population Asks for a Law on Identity. telesurenglish.net El Salvador's Congress has been asked to rule on a law of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court based on gender identity, allowing the change of name for transgender people. | RELATED: | Six humanitarian organizations on Friday called on El Salvador's Congress to comply with a ruling by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court that orders the change of name based on gender identity. "We ask this body (Congress) to immediately comply…

Anonymous103 (2022-02-25). The CIA is Pushing a False Flag Operation in Ukraine to Save Joe Biden and the Democrats. southfront.org Written by John Smith In a prior article, I described the pragmatism of Vladimir Putin in regards to his not…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-25). People's movements across the world demand freedom for Julian Assange. peoplesdispatch.org On the streets of Brasilia and Accra, Johannesburg and New York City, people's movements and organizations demanded on February 25 that publisher and political prisoner Julian Assange be released immediately. The call for mobilizations was issued by the International Peoples' Assembly (IPA) which In a press statement released by the IPA, the organization highlighted that "As imperialist threats and warmongering have co…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-02-25). Leaked Documents Expose High-Profile Leaders and Spies Holding Billions in Switzerland: Here Are the Names. moguldom.com Leaked documents from one of the world's biggest private banks, Credit Suisse, show that the Swiss bank held billions of dollars for heads of state, intelligence officials and human rights abusers. A self-proclaimed whistle-blower leaked data to German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung showing more than 18,000 bank accounts with a total of $100 billion plus. The …

TASS (2022-02-25). Ukrainian military deploys Grad rocket launchers in Kiev — Russia's top brass. tass.com "The latest intelligence data shows that Grad multiple rocket launchers have been deployed in Shevchenko Square in Kiev to deliver strikes against the area of the Gostomel aerodrome," Igor Konashenkov said…

sputniknews (2022-02-25). Israel Chose to Stand With US Over Ukraine, But Will It Harm Tel Aviv's Ties With Moscow? sputniknews.com Aside from enjoying stable trade, cultural links, and booming tourism, the two nations have cooperated on a number of security issues. Moscow has played a pivotal role in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians. It shared its intelligence on the Iranian nuclear programme and it turned a blind eye to the Jewish state's actions in Syria.

sputniknews (2022-02-25). US Transfers Militants From Al Hasakah to At-Tanf, Increasing Threats, Russian Military Says. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US intelligence agencies are moving terrorists held in the Al Hasakah prison to the At-Tanf zone in southern Syria, this could lead to an increase in threats, Rear Adm. Oleg Zhuravlev, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, said.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-25). Biden Nominates Former Public Defender Ketanji Brown Jackson To Supreme Court: 7 Things To Know About Her Political Orientation. moguldom.com President Joe Biden has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill retiring Justice Stephen Breyer's seat, keeping his campaign promise to put a Black woman on the highest court in the land as a guardian and interpreter of the Constitution. Here are 7 things to know about Jackson's nomination and her …

Chris Walker (2022-02-25). Biden Picks Ketanji Brown Jackson to Replace Breyer on Supreme Court. truthout.org President Joe Biden has selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the next United States Supreme Court justice. | Biden was tasked with selecting a new justice after current Justice Stephen Breyer

splcenter (2022-02-25). 'Trailblazing Nomination': SPLC lauds choice for U.S. Supreme Court. splcenter.org

teleSUR (2022-02-25). Judge Jackson To Be Nominated for the US Supreme Court. telesurenglish.net On Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden will announce his intent to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. | RELATED: | Jackson, who currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, will be the first African American woman serving on the country's highest court if the Senate confirms the nomination. The nomination came about a month after Supreme Court Justice Step…

Alyssa Bowen (2022-02-25). Dark Money Is Behind "Women's Groups" Attacking Biden's Supreme Court Pick. truthout.org Today President Biden Judge Jackson would join a court dominated by partisan justices handpicked by right-wing dark money networks that have worked for years to swing the Supreme Court and other courts i…

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2022-02-25: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2022-02-25). The CIA is Pushing a False Flag Operation in Ukraine to Save Joe Biden and the Democrats. southfront.org Written by John Smith In a prior article, I described the pragmatism of Vladimir Putin in regards to his not…

sputniknews (2022-02-25). Israel Chose to Stand With US Over Ukraine, But Will It Harm Tel Aviv's Ties With Moscow? sputniknews.com Aside from enjoying stable trade, cultural links, and booming tourism, the two nations have cooperated on a number of security issues. Moscow has played a pivotal role in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians. It shared its intelligence on the Iranian nuclear programme and it turned a blind eye to the Jewish state's actions in Syria.

TASS (2022-02-25). Ukrainian military deploys Grad rocket launchers in Kiev — Russia's top brass. tass.com "The latest intelligence data shows that Grad multiple rocket launchers have been deployed in Shevchenko Square in Kiev to deliver strikes against the area of the Gostomel aerodrome," Igor Konashenkov said…

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-24). Those Who Violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo Are Free, While the Man who Helped Expose Their Crimes Languishes in Prison. dissidentvoice.org Ahmed Rabbani (Pakistan), Untitled (Grape Arbor), 2016. Rabbani endured 545 days of torture at the hands of the CIA before he was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004. He has been in the prison without charge since then. Twenty years ago, on 11 January 2002, the United States government brought its first 'detainees' abducted during the …

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-24). The UK Wanted to Extradite Assange to the US from the Start. cepr.net The Intercept See article on original site The UK High Court ruling that Julian Assange should be extradited to face trial in the United States — a decision that Amnesty International has called a "travesty of justice" — came as no surprise to me. It's what the UK government always wanted. I know because the …

Binoy Kampmark (2022-02-24). Bipartisan Consensus as Myth: The Manchurian Candidate in Australian Politics. dissidentvoice.org A few dragons have been breathing fire of late, and these need to be slayed. One is the notion that Australia has had some miraculous sense of bipartisan understanding about national security, its politicians well briefed, cooperative and objective on the subject. The second is that politicising intelligence and national security are aberrations. The Morrison …

JANET (2022-02-24). Fighting for voting rights and workers' rights. iacenter.org By Minnie Bruce Pratt February 23, 2022 Ella Baker, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, led a challenge to white segregationist Mississippi Democrats at the 1964 National Democratic Convention. In an act of blatant racism, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling Feb. 7 that halted a lower court's order to make Alabama redraw its gerrymandered Congressional districts and set up fair representation for the state's Black voters. A federal appeals panel — made up of one Clinton-appointed judge and two Trump appointees — had upheld the lower court decision. The SCOTUS decision paused t…

Sharon Zhang (2022-02-24). Manchin Reportedly Backing Corporate-Friendly Michelle Childs for Supreme Court. truthout.org As President Joe Biden considers several top Supreme Court picks, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) is reportedly telling colleagues in private that he prefers a GOP-backed candidate, who unions and pro-labor advocates have sounded the alarm about for her history of advocating for corporations against workers, According to Punchbowl, multiple anonymous sources have said that Manchin wants J. Michelle Childs in…

Kevin Gosztola (2022-02-24). The Inevitability Of Russia's Attack On Ukraine. thedissenter.org [EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't typically use this space to weigh in on US foreign policy without connecting it somehow to whistleblowers, but as the establishment news media limits acceptable views to a very narrow spectrum of reactions, I felt the need to weigh in on Russia's attack on Ukraine.] | *** | Wrong does not really cover it. I was naive. Naively, I convinced myself that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not launch a massive military offensive against all parts of Ukraine. | I allowed myself to believe that the extent of an attack would be limited to seizing territory contested between Ukraine and the bre…

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